Tag.



G. T. RIBBEL.

Patented Mar. 14, 1911.-

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE THEODORE RIEBEL, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, ASSIGNOR, ONE-HALF TOHENRY E. GROFFMAN, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

TAG.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 14, 1911.

Application filed August 4, 1910. Serial No. 575,539.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE THEODORE RIEBEL, citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at New Orleans, in the parish of Orleans and State ofLouisiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Tags, of whichthe following is a specification.

My present invention pertains to tags or labels such as are equippedwith means for effecting attachment of the same to shirts and otherarticles; and it has for its object to provide a tag having a fastenerof such construction that it can be securely attached to shirts,neckties and other articles, and this expeditiously and easily withoutpuncturing or otherwise injuring the shirt or other article, and in suchmanner that the label or tag can be readily slipped off and used eitheron another article or as a record against the sale of the article towhich it was applied.

Other advantageous characteristics of the invention will be fullyunderstood from the following description and claim when the same areread in connection with the drawings, accompanying and forming part ofthis specification, in which:

Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating a portion of a shirt and mynovel tag properly applied to the neckband thereof. Fig. 2 is anenlarged detail perspective view showing, by full lines, the wirefastener as the same appears when clipped on a neck band and precedentto the connection of the tag to said fastener, and also showing bydotted lines the tag and the terminals of the fastener as said terminalsappear after the label is placed thereon and the terminals are bentagainst the opposite side of the tagwith reference to the neckband. Fig.3 is a vertical section taken in the plane indicated by the line 33 ofFig. 2, looking in the direction indicated by arrow and showing the tagand fastener as properly connected together. Fig. 1 is an enlargedperspective view illustrative of a modified mode hereinafter referred toof connecting the tag and fastener together.

Referring by letter to the said drawings, and more particularly to Figs.1 to 3 thereof: A is the neckband of a shirt. B is a tag which ispreferably of pasteboard or cardboard, though it may be of any othermaterial suitable to its purpose without involving departure from thescope of my claimed invention, and C is the fastener with which thetag-B is equipped.

The fastener O is formed of a single piece of wire possessed of therequisite resiliency; and it comprises a U-shaped clip a, arms 7)connected through bights 0 with the ends of the clip a and arrangedopposite the side bars (Z of said clip, and terminals 0 extending fromthe lower ends of the arms 6. The said terminals 0 are passedtransversely through the tag B and are bent flat against one side of thesaid tag as clearly shown by full lines in Figs. 1 and 3 and by dottedlines in Fig. 2.

Vlfhen it is desired to place the tags equipped with the fasteners onthe market as unitary articles of manufacture the tags and theirrespective fasteners are connected together in the manner described atthe time of manufacture. I would have it understood, however, thatwithout involving departure from the scope of my claimed invention thetags and fasteners may be separately placed on the market, from which itfollows that when it is desired to tag a shirt for instance, a fastenermay be clipped over the neckband of a shirt after the manner shown byfull lines in Fig. 2, after which a tag can be pressed on the terminals6 of the fastener, and then the said terminals can be bent by hand flatagainst one side of the tag, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.

In the. practical use of my novel tag it will be manifest that itsfastener may be quickly and easily clamped on a neckband of a shirt oron any other article that is to be tagged, and when so placed thefastener will securely hold the tag to the neckband or other articlewithout puncturing or otherwise injuring the article or in any wayafiecting the salability thereof. It will also be manifest that when thetagged article is sold, the fastener-bearing tag may be quickly andeasily removed from the article, and then the fastener-bearing tag canbe used to tag another article or else can be preserved as a record ofthe sale of the first-named article.

In lieu of connecting the fastener O to the tag B in the manner shown inFigs. 1 to 8 and hereinbefore described, the tag can be connected to thefastener in the manner illustrated in Fig. 4:. In the latter figure thefastener C is provided with upstanding terminals 6*, but is otherwisesimilar to the fastener C. On the said upstanding terminals a a tag B isimpaled, by running the terminals 6 upward between layers comprised inthe tag. In this way it will be observed that the terminals e are hiddenfrom view, and atthe same time the tag and its fastener'are stronglyconnected together without the necessity of bending the terminals fiatagainst the side of the tag.

By reference to the drawings, it will be observed that in bothembodiments of my invention, the U-shaped clip and the arms 7'intermediate the said clip and the terminals the U-shaped clip and theintermediate arms, with the result that the fastener is enabled tosecurely hold the tag on the device without in any way pressing-the tagout of shape or otherwise marring or affecting the same. I

While I have shownand described two forms of my invention, it is to beunderstood that I am not limited to the details or the form or relativearrangement of parts Copies of this patent may be obtained fordisclosed, but that modifications may be made therein without departingfrom the spirit thereof.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure byLetters-Patent, is:

A tag having a fastener, of resilient wire, comprising a dependingU-shaped clip ar-. ranged as a whole opposite and substantially parallelto the tag, arms joined through bights attheir upper ends with the upperendsiof the clip andarran ed substantially parallel to and spacedfromthe sides ofthe clip and also arranged throughouttheirlength betweenthe clip sides and the tag and in the same transverse planes as saidsides; the relative length of the said arms being such that the tag isenabled to rest alongside of a neckband without projecting materiallyabove the same, and terminals extending from the lower ends of the saidarms and on' which thetag is secured. Ml

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence oftwosubscribing witnesses.

GEORGE THEODORE RIEBEL.

Witnesses: I I

R; C. SEWELL, LEO LEMLE.

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